welcome to our new social+ORDER

at the cross+ROADS ... places of hybrid identity + psychic limbo

common interest + experience defines us better than geography, nationality -- or even blood

*this is where we live*

call it neo+CULTURE

American culture (25)
borderlands (6)
career (16)
community (42)
culture (45)
Expat Harem concept (5)
family (16)
friendship (9)
global niche (17)
harem (4)
history (23)
home (23)
identity (72)
memoir (7)
multicultural (14)
origin (27)
psychic limbo (6)
self-image (32)
society (39)
taboo (12)
women (17)

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recent+POSTS

What kind of global citizen are you?


Born that way, always been


Schooled abroad


Lived abroad


Worked abroad


Traveler


Interested in a wider world


All of the above


Other



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Strategic love

If marriage is the smallest unit of a community, then cross-cultural couples are ambassadors, peace-makers, and change-agents. [...]

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The twinge of heritage

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago severed. [...]

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Does expat lit deserve its own shelf?

Expatriate literature may be stocked in the travel-memoir-classics section, but does it deserve a shelf of its own? Highlights from a week of Twitter #litchat about the unique depths of outsider cultural views from the inside [...]

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Designing la dolce vita

A former officer in the U.S. Navy-turned expat discovers life design is necessary for expat women as military personnel transitioning to civilian life [...]

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It takes a virtual village

A virtual network of mothers helps an Irishwoman in Turkey raise her children by the standards she grew up with. [...]

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Social media as self actualization

As social networking renders overseas professional women visible and relevant, it’s a powerful tool of self-actualization. [...]

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Writing to save your life

When a stamp in her passport reads “Wife not permitted to work”, writing saves the sanity and career of a serial expat [...]

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Hybrid domesticities

When an emerging American artist moves to Turkey and starts a family, she navigates new definitions of career and home life. [...]

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